Updated: January 1, 2019
Continuing, for some reason, to chronicle every book and short story I’ve read since The Lord of the Rings last spring.

Volume 1 (2017) | “Selected readings from the Old Lady Book Club”

Critical remarks are avoided while ratings are reserved for “Library Book Club” selections (noted in red to represent the spectre of death) and other significant achievements/shame spirals. Rereads coopt the register mark and establish that “rereads” and “coopt” are not to be hyphenated.

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HP Lovecraft
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)
“Discarded Draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth” (1931)

Mark Twain
“The Million-Pound Bank Note” (1893)

Edgar Allan Poe
“American Novel-Writing” (1839)
“American Poetry” (1845)

Rachel Joyce
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

William Peter Blatty
Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1959)

Stephen King
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991) Ⓡ

HP Lovecraft
The Shadow Out of Time (1936)

Edgar Allan Poe
“Letter to B––” (1836)
“Review of ’The Culprit Fay’ and Other Poems and ’Alnwick Castle’ With Other Poems” (1836)
“Review of Poems” (1837)
“Review of ’The Old Curiosity Shop’ and Other Tales and Master Humphrey’s Clock” (1841)
“Critical Notes Exordium” (1842)

Graham Norton
Holding (2016)
⭐⭐⭐

John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)

HG Wells
The Sleeper Awakes (1910)

Edgar Allan Poe
The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage Across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man (1840)

E. Christopher Clark
Those Little Bastards (stories, 2002)

Angela Flournoy
The Turner House (2015)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow (stories, 1895)

Edgar Allan Poe
“Ballads and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” (1842)
“Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne” (1842)

Bruce McCulloch
Let’s Start a Riot: How a Young Drunk Punk Became a Hollywood Dad (2014)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary (1922)

HP Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness (1936)

Edgar Allan Poe
“The American Drama” (1845)

Jeffrey Archer
Kane and Abel (1979/2009 revision)
⭐⭐⭐

Edgar Allan Poe
“Marginalia” (1845–1849)
“Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” (1845)
“Literary Small Talk” (1839)
“Palæstine” (1836)
“Anastatic Printing” (1845)
“Street-Paving” (1845)

Stephen King
From Four Past Midnight (1990)
The Langoliers Ⓡ

Edgar Allan Poe
“Intemperance” (1839) *
“Cabs” (1840) *
“A Moving Chapter” (1844)
“Desultory Notes on Cats” (1844)
“A Chapter of Suggestions” (1844)

Stephen King
From Four Past Midnight (1990)
Secret Window, Secret Garden Ⓡ

Edgar Allan Poe
“Souvenirs of Youth” (1843)
“The Head of St. John the Baptist” (1843)
“Memo to Rufus W. Griswold, Esqre., Boston, Mass.” (1841)

Philip K. Dick
Second Variety (1953)

Philip K. Dick
“Exhibit Piece” (1954)

HP Lovecraft
“Fungi From Yuggoth” (1929–1930)

Sam Eastland (Paul Watkins)
Eye of the Red Tsar (2010)
⭐⭐⭐

Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968/2008 revision)

Stephen King
From Four Past Midnight (1990)
The Library Policeman Ⓡ

Edgar Allan Poe
“The Literati of New York City” (1846)
“Autography” (1836)
“A Chapter on Autography” (1841)
“An Appendix of Autographs” (1842)
“A Chapter on Science and Art” (1840) *

Stephen King
From Four Past Midnight (1990)
The Sun Dog Ⓡ

Edgar Allan Poe
“Pinakidia” (1836)
“Omniana” (1840) *

Samanta Schweblin
Fever Dream (2014/2017 translation)

Edgar Allan Poe
“Doings of Gotham” (1844)

George Saunders
Tenth of December (stories, 2013)

Matthew Dicks
Something Missing (2009) Ⓡ
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

John Buchan
Greenmantle (1916)

Philip K. Dick
“Beyond Lies the Wub” (1952)
“The Defenders” (1953)

Carrie Fisher
Postcards From the Edge (1987)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Philip K. Dick
“The Crystal Crypt” (1954)
“Beyond the Door” (1952)
“The Eyes Have It” (1953)

Herman Koch
The Dinner (2009/2013 translation)
⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
“Coda” (1979)

HP Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)

Robert W. Chambers
“The Maker of Moons” (1896)

HP Lovecraft
“Azathoth” (1922)

Philip K. Dick
“The Gun” (1952)

Joseph Heller
Good As Gold (1979)

David McCullough
The Wright Brothers (2015)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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[Thus ends Year One of my involvement with the Ladies. Skipped titles were Ron Hall and Denver Moore’s Same Kind of Different As Me and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. I am penciled in for Year Two—at least through another “one book” offering—but I may drop out in favor of starting my own group at work. Stay tuned.]

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Philip K. Dick
The Variable Man (1953)
“Tony and the Beetles” (1953)

HP Lovecraft
“Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919)
“Celephaïs” (1922)

Philip K. Dick
“The Hanging Stranger” (1953)

HP Lovecraft
“Cool Air” (1928)

Kevin Courrier
33⅓: Trout Mask Replica (2007)

Stephen King
The Eyes of the Dragon (1984/1987 revision)

HP Lovecraft
“Dagon” (1919)
“The Doom That Came to Sarnath” (1920)
“Ibid” (1928)
“The Rats in the Walls” (1924)
“The White Ship” (1919)
“History of The Necronomicon” (1927)
“The Terrible Old Man” (1921)
“Memory” (1923)
“Ex Oblivione” (1921) *
“The Evil Clergyman” (1933)
“What the Moon Brings” (1923)
“A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson” (1917) *
“The Tree” (1921)
“The Tomb” (1922)
“The Street” (1920)
“Sweet Ermengarde” (c. 1921) *

John Buchan
Mr. Standfast (1919)

Philip K. Dick
“The Skull” (1952)
“Piper in the Woods” (1953)
“Mr. Spaceship” (1953)
“Strange Eden” (1954)

William Landay
Defending Jacob (2012)
⭐⭐⭐⭐

John McMillian
Beatles vs. Stones (2013)

Philip K. Dick
“The Unreconstructed M” (1957)

Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)

Philip K. Dick
“Sales Pitch” (1954)
“Shell Game” (1954)
“Roog” (1953)

Shirley Jackson
The Lottery (stories, 1949) Ⓡ
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

CJ Tudor
The Chalk Man (2018)

Philip K. Dick
“Breakfast at Twilight” (1954)
“Paycheck” (1953)
“Impostor” (1953)
“The King of the Elves,” a.k.a. “Shadrach Jones and the Elves” (1953)

Cyril G. Wates
“The Visitation” (1927)

EM Forster
“The Machine Stops” (1909)

Philip K. Dick
“Adjustment Team” (1954)
“Foster, You’re Dead!” (1955)
“The Crawlers” (1954)

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2000)
⭐⭐⭐⭐

HP Lovecraft
“The Music of Erich Zann” (1922)
“The Cats of Ulthar” (1920)
“Old Bugs” (1919)

Philip K. Dick
The Golden Man (1954)
The Last of the Masters (1954)
The Turning Wheel (1954)

HP Lovecraft
“He” (1926)
“The Picture in the House” (1921)
“The Outsider” (1926)

Philip K. Dick
“Upon the Dull Earth” (1954)
“Human Is” (1955)
“Meddler” (1954)

HP Lovecraft
“The Quest of Iranon” (1921)
“Hypnos” (1923)
“Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family,” a.k.a. “The White Ape” (1921)

Upton Bell/Ron Borges
Present at the Creation: My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America’s Game (2017)

Mark Twain
“My First Lie and How I Got Out of It” (1899)

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[A second book club emerges! In purple, to represent the spectre of… the Minnesota Vikings? Baltimore Ravens? For this boasts an unshackled Commissioner Rico himself! And lo, “CSGNFBØQEBCBBL” initiates its culturally significant gasbaggery with…]

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Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
⭐⭐⭐

Philip K. Dick
“Autofac” (1955)
The Minority Report (1956)
“We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (1966)

Mark Twain
“The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” (1899)

HP Lovecraft
“Pickman’s Model” (1927)
“The Moon-Bog” (1926)
“The Strange High House in the Mist” (1931)

Mark Twain
“Luck” (1891)
“The Captain’s Story” (1892)
“The Esquimaux Maiden’s Romance” (1893)

William Faulkner
“A Rose for Emily” (1930)

Richard Russo
Straight Man (1997)